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L. K. JOHNSON.

TYPE DISTRIBUTING MAGHINE.

.110. 541,758. Pa-tented June 25, 1895;

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TYPE DISTRIBUTING MAUHIN'E.

No. 541,758. Patented June 25, 1895.

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L. K. JIOHNSON.

TYPE DISTRIBUTING MAGHINE.

No. 541,758. P5555555 Junez, 1895.

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'NIT-ED STATES PrrTinvT GEFI'E.

LoUIs KossUrH JonNsoN, or BROOKLYN, AssIcNoR To THE ALDEN TYPE MACHINE COMPANY, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

TYP E- DISTIRIBU TING MACHINE.

SPEGFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 541,758, dated J une 25, 1895. Application filed November 2, 1894. Serial No. 527,707. (No model.)

To all whom it may con/cem,.-

Be it known that I, LoUIs KofssUTH JOHN- sON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Brooklyn,in the county of Kings and State of New York, have i nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Distributing Apparatus, of which the following is a speoification suflicient to enable others skilled in the art to Which the invention apro pertains to make and use the same.

My improvements relate to automatic type distributing apparatus in Which types with combination nicks are presented to a series of feelers, certain of Which enter the nicks r 5 and are thereby caused to actuate mechanism by which the types-are successvely deposited .in their appropriate channels.

Owingto the presence of printers7 wax, ink,

and other foreign substances, many of the 2o types are. not presented to the feelers with sufficientaccuracy to admit the appropriate feelers into the square shouldered, shallow combination nicks with which the types have heretofore been formed, and are consequently passed through the distributing apparatus to finally form pi in the last receiving channel. A very slightvariation in: the position longitudinally is sufficient to effect this result, which is also contributed to somewhat 3o by the vibration of the apparatus. In my concurrent application, filed October-29, 1894, Serial No. 527,235, I overcome this difticnlty by forming the types With register or combination nicks having an inclined surface which is presented to the feelers at such an angle that if the types are slightly out of position longitudinally the contact of the feelers with the inclined sides of the nicks will tend to force the types into proper alignment so 4o that the proper feelers can enter the nicks tol the full depthof the latter and thereby insure the removal of the type at the proper time and place. -In my said eoncurrent application I show and describe the use of types having register nicks formed With inclin'ed sides, in combination with feelers the faces of which are also inclined, but this is not indispensable since the old form of square or flat faced feeler may be used in connection with 5o the inclined sides of the nicks in the type With satisfactory results. Neither are the intype with satisfactory results.

clined sides of the nicks in the types indispensable where the'faces ofjthe feelers are formed with inclined surfaces, since it will be seen herein thatffthe inclined surfaces of the feelers may be used in connection With theA old form of rectangular register nick in the Hence, While in my said concurrent application I claim only 'the types formedI with register nicks having 6o inclined surfaces, my present invention consists in forming the faces of type feelers with inclined surfaees which act upon the edges or Walls of the register nicks in the type, whether rectangular or inclinedfioforce the types into proper relation to the feelers so that the latter may enter the nicks to the full depth thereof, and thereby insure the proper disposition of the types.

In the accompanying drawings I show my 7 improvement mainly as applied towhat is known as the Alden distributer, although it is also shown as adapted to the Burr distributer, and is available in all machines in which register nicks in the types are used in conjunction With detective feelers in-the apparatus which actuate mechanism by which the types are individually deposited in their appropriate channels.

The scale of the drawings is double that of 8o the size of the original parts.

'Figure 1 is-an elevation showing diagrammatically the feeler levers used in the Alden and'similar distributing machines in Which the feeler levers actuate intermediate levers by which appropriate mechanism is actuated to grasp and remove the detected type, the old form of rectangular register nick and feeler facing being retained. Fig. 2 is a plan of the parts shownin Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view simi- 9o lar to Fig. l, showing my improved construction of feeler. Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate the action of my improved feeler in forcing -a high type into proper position; Figs. 6 and 7, similar, views in which a modified form of feeler face is shown. Figs. 8 and 9 illustrate stillanother modification. FigslO and 11illustrate the action of feelers formed with curved faces, and Fig. 12, feelers the faces of which are rounded o'r semi-circular. Fig. 13 i1lus-. :oo

trates the action of my improved form of feeler when used in conjunction with types formed with the old rectangnlar register nicks. Fig'. 14 shows the old formof type nick and feeler but slightly out of register, and inoperative. Fig. 15 is a diagrainmatie illustration of the application of my improvement to the Burr or other distributing apparatus in Which the f eelers reci procate. i In the first fourteen figures of the drawings the type T, is shown as in the race way A, containing the line of type to be distributed, the heels of the type presu mably resting upon the floor a, While the rear edge of the type rests against the vertical guide Walls a', a', the type successively bringing up against the end abutrnent a2, (Fig. 2) Where they are subjeeted to the action of the feelers F,and,then` raised and transferred to their proper channels by mechanisin vwhich it,.is notnecessary to` show in; this connection. `Thefeeler levers F, are pivoted at. p, their short arms endingin the1 feelersf, `while.theirL long,r arms eXtend backl to aiseries of come-- sponding' intermediatelevers L, by .which ,the`

coinbination detected by ,the feelers i strans-,

mitted to suitable inechanisrnwhiehvsetsthe parts for the reception and` deliyeryA offthe type, as iswell known in' the state of tl,1(`,`art.'``

Thefeelers f, arepressed,a,f ,rainfsltJ each ,type With an elastic pressure, transmitted,throughl the levers L, which` while ,it acoolmrnodates`V itself to the resistance afforded by the, type,- also forces forwardthe faces f', of the fleele'rs, f, which coineide With,the nicks inthe .type

T,"`thereby allowing the lenter ends ])`f` the` feeler levers F, to yield before Athe intermediate levers L, to set the, eornbination. The faces f', of the feelersfiare inclined more or lessl'tyith-relation to the longitnudinalwflxes,,of``

the typeswhenin position'againstthe abutment `asorthat, should. a type beraisedl slightly out. of perfectalignmlenttheinelined I surfaces fi, encounteringihe.,lower sidesfof the nicks, Will tendto Wedge the type down` into position so that the feelers can enter the .i i,

coinbination nicks to thevfull 'depththereot,` and thereby insure the setting 1ofthe typel distributing mechanism.` This result Will be attained even where theold `fornfrtofI rectan-A gular nick in the type is used, as in g. 13,-

but types nicked to correspond With the faces are preferable, as in my concurrent application hereinbefore referred to. Thus in Figs. 3 to 5, inclusive, the ends of the feelersf, are simply beveled, and fit into corresponding nicks in the types; whereasin Figs. 6, 7 and l3,at runcated bevel is shown. In Figs. 8 and 9, the faces f' of the feelers are formed with a double inclination or V shape, and entercorresponding nicks in the types T; while in Figs. 10,11 and 12, the faces f', of the feelers are curved. In all these cases it Will be` seen that an inelined or Wedging surface is presented to thelower sides of the nicks bythe appropriate feelers, so that any slight variation from perfect alignment Will be corrected, even though-theold Vrectangularnicks are in ,in-use;whereas.I in the .old form of square on rectangular ``faced feelers, used in A connection with the old rectangulan nieks in thetypeas in. Fig. 14:,'tl1e` slightest deviation issutficienttoprevent the entrance of the` faesof` the feelers i ntotthe types and the laltter oonsequentlypass into cfpif. r'heactiqnisthesame Wherethe `feelers consist of i o n a u reciprocatingfingernas i ndicated in Fig. 15, and `fully set U forth -in my `concurfrent application Vhereinbet'ore referred to.

,Whatl 'claim \as`` my invention, and desire to seeure byLetters Patent, is-- i i.

,1, In automatic-type;distributing mechani'sin, a type; feeler for-med witha feeling i surface inelined with relation to thelongitudinal ,azesniof-Wthe type aspresented to it, substantially in the manner and for the purpose desfcribed..i I i..

.2.,k1nautomatic type distribnting mechani`srn, a plurality ofI typefeelersformed with feeling surfaces inclined With relation to the ,lhngitudiual axes of the type as presented to .thesaid feelers,substantiallyiin` the. manner `and ``for the purpose described. i. i i

LOUIS 'KOSSUTI-I JOHNSON. 3 \Vitnessesz i i A GEOBGE WILLIAM MIATT, D. W. GABDNER. V i 

